The last three are especially interesting and are going to see exponential growth in the next decade, with the development of Ethereum and blockchain technology integrating smart contracts with electronic payments when we add in AI & autonomous cars we could have the next Uber. Except decentralised without a huge company making millions off consumers, but consumers purchasing auto-cars as a source of supplementary income. (Think airbnb for cars without drivers and no central company taking a large percentage on revenue being wasted by layers of management)
The future predictions statement below by Robert M. Goldman shows just how quickly the world is developing.
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NOTE: Please find my crude notes taken from Ad:tech Sydney March 2016. Please excuse any typos as this was written on the fly and with my life is now consumed with my beautiful 5 month old daughter and work @ROKT. As such this hasn't been edited, typos and poor autocorrections from my iPad Pro will entail.
Evolve from commercials to content - move from disruptive to engaging advertising
10 fundamentals of #content #marketing

Topical valuable and relatable content is key
Michael shanks Sochi video that went viral
Rhettandlink - YouTube viral video creators - https://www.youtube.com/user/RhettandLink
"When people share this, what 10 words will they use to describe it to their friends"
Discoverability - trending and evergreen
Geico example - scape goal example "It's what you do.."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-EZizbG7ms
Ensure a good split of evergreen plus trending topics
Stereotypes but dude perfect - great content
PepsiCo ad on football with in uk with projected field and drones

Conversational:
Must be talking to the customers - responding to audience,
Toyota brand example - Toyota hilux material add - "SKIP IT... SKIP IT.."
Make compelling videos..
Interactivity -
Who won, who's text, you decide ERB video on YouTube.
Jamie Oliver - choose your own adventure
Consistency -
Don't focus on timing of content, but the content in content.
"Capture your tent poles and string your content throughout the year on these core topics"
Bad lip reading - great format of dubbing over content with lip reading.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RKOZgQy8qrw
Nike -
Sustainability -
If the audience loves it can you make more of it.
Tent pole moments - each of the product launches this are the things we need to focus all attention towards on our content strategy
Focus on high attention moment

Learn YouTube’s top strategies for developing digital content. Think long haul, not one commercial at a time. Develop a content strategy to grow loyal customers. Build a sustainable customer base that you can engage in a relationship with.

Continuing on the Business Foundations Specialization on Coursera I have started to learn the basics on improving business processes.
The basic overview on operations is how to increase productivity and deliver higher quality standards, most people see the focus on creating cost efficiencies but it also has a lot to do with the quality of service that is provided at every step of the customer experience.
Key concepts include process analysis, bottlenecks, flows rates, and inventory levels, and more.

The Four Dimensions of Performance:

time / responsiveness

variety

quality

price / cost / efficiency

Cost:

Efficiency

Labour

Customers

Quality:

Product quality - how good?

customer service

Process quality - as good as promised?

Variety:

customer heterogeneity (the vast majority)

# items sold

% requests made happy

Time:

Responsiveness to demand

Efficient frontier: where all other players in the industry sit. (inside to the lower left)

At 2,000+ software vendors (and rising fast), the marketing technology industry isn’t just dynamic. It’s completely out of control.
Email technology is no exception: The plumbing required to make sure your customers get that coupon or white paper to their inbox on time is only growing in complexity. If you’re an email marketer at any level, you need to have a basic grasp of these categories.
In one of the most data-driven studies on email marketing ever, VB Insight found nearly 80 percent of email marketers struggle with maintaining or growing their subscribers, among other core challenges.
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Continuing on with the specialisation on project-management this segment takes me through the key principles of project initiating and planning, which will include mapping stakeholders, the scope of work, and the project Work Breakdown Structure. It covers off similar points from my earlier post on Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management and goes through things in more detail with a close correlation to the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) guide.

What is a project?

A unique and temporary endeavour, with a stated beginning and end. to create (or change) a specific product or service

Constraints - a factor that may place limitations on what you do, when you do it or how you do it.

The guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide) Standardised knowledge on areas and processes of project management.

MITs – Most Important Tasks. It’s not an original concept, but one that I use on a daily basis and that has helped me out tremendously.
It’s very simple: your MIT is the task you most want or need to get done today. In my case, I’ve tweaked it a bit so that I have three MITs — the three things I must accomplish today. Do I get a lot more done than three things? Of course. But the idea is that no matter what else I do today, these are the things I want to be sure of doing. So, the MIT is the first thing I do each day, right after I have a glass of water to wake me up.

Whether you want to launch an empire or become the best in your field, who better to consult than those who’ve achieved the peak of professional and financial success?
My Picks (which i’ve read) in order of awesomeness...

The 2015 Advancing Analytics IAPA National Conference brought to us by ADMA was a data science focused one-day conference that delivered global ideas for driving business forward through data and analytics.
Here are my "LOOSE" notes madly taken down while trying to take as much of the day in as possible.
I also photographed as many of the slides as I could, see the gallery at the bottom of this post.
Please excuse typos and half finished sentences, I wanted to get this up asap. (and up at all.. I know what its like!)

Would you like to learn how to get more done with less effort, eliminate wasteful activities? This book can show you how.
In The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch thoroughly examines Pareto’s Law – the observation that, in any given context, “a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually leads to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards.” This inherent nonlinearity is present in all aspects of life, and by paying attention to your efforts and results, you can identify major opportunities for improvement in every aspect of your life and business.
In other words... for most events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This number can change – sometimes it’s 70/30 and sometimes it’s 90/10. But whatever the ratio, the point is that a small number of causes have a disproportionately large effect on the outcome.

More about me...

Stewart is an agile, results oriented data driven digital strategist with over 15 years’ experience designing, building, and marketing web and mobile platforms.
Stewart has a passion for businesses that challenge and disrupt markets. He gets particularly excited working with big data, solving critical strategic problems and rolling out creative solutions to ensure changes are smoothly implemented. Stewart loves finding a way to make things better.

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Tomorro

Tomorro is a global promotion aggregation site where people are encouraged to dream generously and give back to the community... Read More on this Project...

SHESAID

SHESAID was Australia’s first premier female fashion site launching back in 1999. Stewart lead a team to completely redeveloped the site with a new premium branding and undertake a full marketing strategy to relaunch... Read More on this Project...